By going all in on AWS, 3M Health Information Systems (HIS) provisions compute resources in minutes instead of weeks, develops and deploys software in one week instead of six, and innovates faster. 3M HIS enables customers to efficiently document, code, classify, store, and measure healthcare delivery with integrated software and services, enabling complete, compliant, and accurate payments. 3M HIS customers also analyze the total cost, quality, and outcomes for patients and populations, using 3M data-analytics applications. 3M HIS runs several advanced applications on AWS.

Running its infrastructure in AWS has enabled abof to achieve 99.999 percent availability and an average page loading time of 1.5 seconds, while obtaining the agility needed to thrive in the competitive online fashion industry in India. abof is Indian conglomerate Aditya Birla Group’s initial venture into e-commerce; the business provides apparel, footwear, and accessories for men and women. The business is using Amazon EC2 to run IBM WebSphere Commerce Suite and an IBM DB2 database, Amazon S3 to store website images and video, Amazon RDS to run a MySQL database supporting an in-house developed logistics system, and Amazon CloudFront to deliver content to users across India and internationally.

AirAsia is Asia's leading low-cost airline with it's regional headquarters based in Malaysia. AirAsia flies to over 120 destinations across Asia, Australia and the Middle East with an estimated 60 million pax flown annually. AirAsia utilises services such as Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Lambda and AWS X-ray which offers detailed performance insights and boosts operational efficiency. Since moving its website and booking platform to AWS, they have been able to better cope with customer demands; auto-scaling to receive almost 10 million to 40 million requests per day on normal and peak seasons respectively.

Using AWS, Aircel reduced development time for its Aircel Backup app by 60%, and ensured its Aircel e-money platform delivered the security and reliability to maintain high levels of customer satisfaction. Aircel offers a range of voice and data services and is the fastest-growing telecommunications provider in India. Today, the company runs its Aircel e-money platform and Aircel Backup app on AWS, using Amazon EC2 instances for web and databases services, and relies on Amazon S3 for storage and CloudWatch services for real-time alert configuration.

Using AWS, Alert Logic gains data protection and geographic redundancy, and reduces the cost of its footprint by more than 50 percent compared to an on-premises data center. Alert Logic is a cloud-security provider based in Houston, Texas. The company uses Amazon S3 to store and analyze data for its security-as-a-service solution.

Allergan easily supports 10 percent annual business growth and launches new websites and online campaigns in one day instead of several weeks using AWS. Allergan is a global pharmaceutical firm that creates and markets brands to consumers throughout the world. The organization runs more than 400 product websites and marketing applications on AWS. The top 10 percent of Allergan’s AWS-hosted websites—by visitor volume—are built in Sitecore CMS.

Amazon.com is the world’s largest online retailer. In 2011, Amazon.com switched from tape backup to using cloud-based Amazon S3 for backing up the majority of its Oracle databases. By using AWS, Amazon.com was able to eliminate backup software and experienced a 12X performance improvement, reducing restore time from around 15 hours to 2.5 hours in select scenarios.

Using AWS, AOL has been able to close data centers and decommission about 14,000 in-house and collocated servers, move mission-critical workloads to the cloud, extend its global reach, and save millions of dollars on energy resources. AOL is one of the original Internet companies and today has several lines of business, including digital advertising, multiple web properties, and membership services. It uses a broad range of AWS services, such as AWS Lambda for creating serverless architectures, and uses varieties of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, powered by Intel Xeon processors, to carefully manage its costs. It also leverages AWS for hybrid scenarios for particular workloads.

By using AWS deep-learning technologies, Astro took only six weeks to develop and deploy Astrobot Voice, the enterprise-grade voice email assistant that ships with its Astro email app. The company enables workplace teams to focus on what’s important by using machine learning to make their communications more effective and less time-consuming. Astro built Astrobot by using Amazon Lex for speech recognition and language understanding.

Australia Finance Group (AFG) has increased its investment in innovation to better grow its business and compete against fintech startups by reducing its annual IT operational spend by AU$500,000 (US$372,150) using AWS. According to the Mortgage & Finance Association of Australia, AFG is one of the largest mortgage aggregators in the country. The company has migrated its main IT systems to the AWS Cloud, including a mission-critical Oracle Siebel CRM platform whose web and application servers run on Amazon EC2 instances and whose data warehouse is delivered using Amazon RDS.

Using AWS, Autodesk can scale the use of generative design to run hundreds of simulations in one hour instead of several hours or days. Autodesk develops software for the engineering, design, and entertainment industries. Using services including Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Autodesk can focus on developing its machine-learning tools instead of managing infrastructure. Brian Mathews, VP of platform engineering at Autodesk, spoke onstage at re:Invent 2017.

Using AWS, Autodesk is able to set up and deploy 450 workstations at its Autodesk University events, saving nearly a week’s worth of time and thousands of dollars. Autodesk develops software for the engineering, design, and entertainment industries. Instead of renting physical hardware, Autodesk uses Amazon WorkSpaces to host its virtual workstations on zero clients, improving setup efficiency and reducing its carbon footprint.

By using AWS, Air Works has improved the performance of its operations by 84 percent and its response times by 160 percent. Air Works is one of India's largest independent aviation maintenance repair and overhaul companies. The company uses AWS to run all of its operations, including compute, identity and access management, and storage.

Avianca Brasil, a Brazilian domestic air carrier with a reputation for passenger comfort and competitive pricing, uses AWS to host content for its marketing department. AWS provides a secure environment at an estimated 60% of the cost of an on-premises solution.

BrightRoll is an independent video ad technology platform for digital video advertising across the web, mobile devices, and connected TV. Using AWS, BrightRoll has created comprehensive digital advertising solutions that deliver petabytes of data to more than 80 of the top 100 US advertisers and 18 of the top 20 advertising technology companies.

BurdaStudios delivers news 75 percent faster by using AWS technologies, supporting its leading celebrity website. Bunte.de is the most popular gossip portal in German-speaking Europe, attracting up to 35 million visits a month. By using a microservices architecture based on Amazon ECS and AWS Lambda, the website easily scales to cope with double the traffic during high-profile news events such as royal marriages or celebrity deaths.

Corporate Governance Risk Pty Ltd (CGR), developer of a web-based risk management application, found that moving to the AWS Cloud gave the company a competitive edge to deliver services to its European clients in seconds with virtually zero downtime.

D-Link Corporation, an international networking solutions provider, needed to launch its cloud-based service portal, mydlink, quickly and economically. By migrating to AWS, the company was able to build and deploy the portal in only six weeks, and estimates 30% faster service delivery to customers while reducing IT costs by roughly 50%.

Needing a solution to host its Microsoft SharePoint solutions, Dole Food Company, chose AWS because of reliability and low cost. The company can launch a new SharePoint site in minutes on the AWS Cloud and has saved at $350,000 in operating expenses.

GE’s Business Integration Technologies Laboratory wanted to re-imagine the manufacturing process, but was limited by the speed at which traditional environments can design, test, and build systems. GE took advantage of AWS GovCloud (US) to develop a new manufacturing platform that connects a global network of people and machines in a secure, compliant, and distributed environment.

GOL Airlines developed an Intranet system that can offer diverse entertainment options to passengers in flight. By combining an innovative concept with the technical expertise of AWS, the airline gained agility and faster time-to-market without the expense of on-premises equipment.

Haven Power serves the electricity needs of business customers in the East of England. The company began using AWS for disaster recovery, and has since migrated its billing services and data warehouse to AWS. By using AWS, the company has seen response times drop from 500 milliseconds to 80 milliseconds and saved significant upfront capital expenditure by deciding not to upgrade its on-premise data center.

Hearst Corporation is one of America’s largest diversified media companies with ownership of newspapers, magazines, television stations, and various other interests. The enterprise wanted to get out of the business of running IT infrastructure and is currently migrating 10 of its 29 global data centers to AWS. By using AWS instead of investing in traditional on-premises IT infrastructure, Hearst avoided a multimillion dollar investment and completed its IT infrastructure consolidation in one-fifth of the expected time.

When Hess Corporation announced divestiture plans for its downstream businesses in March 2013, the IT department decided to migrate the associated infrastructure in a way that would completely uncouple dependence from its on-premises datacenter. Working with APN partner, Nimbo, Hess leveraged AWS to prepare its Energy Marketing business for acquisition in only 6 months — a process that would have taken twice as long with an on-premises environment.

Hi-Media is the Internet publisher of the Fotolog photo blogging website. Hi-Media rebuilt the site and moved it to AWS where it can easily scale to meet the demands of Fotolog’s 32 million global users who have collectively posted 1 billion photos and 10 billion comments.

Hitachi is a multinational conglomerate that helps enterprises manage their hybrid cloud infrastructure running on AWS with services such as IT consulting, architecting and development services, technical support, and SaaS enablement. Since 2013, Hitachi has trained more than 200 of its Solution Architects to improve how they support its customers' cloud deployments. As a result, Hitachi's Solution Architects can now be involved in more aspects of the company, including interacting with customers, being involved with sales cycles, and supporting expansion of the business.

The Holiday Extras website (holidayextras.com) sells airport parking, hotels, travel insurance, and other travel add-ons. In order to deal with seasonal peaks and troughs, and to meet its goal of developing hassle-free customer technology, the company moved their infrastructure to AWS and reduced latency by 20%.

Migrating to AWS in 2008 helped Hungama Digital Media Entertainment reduce IT costs and accelerate innovation and time-to-market. As more development teams migrated to AWS, Hungama turned to AWS Trusted Advisor to optimize its environment on AWS and reduced monthly costs by 33%.

Impossible Software is using AWS to provide a scalable global platform that allows its customers to render hundreds of personalized videos per second. The company provides a web-based video-rendering service, so customers can produce videos to convey unique information or marketing messages to thousands of their own customers. Impossible Software uses AWS for its editing, rendering, and logging environments, taking advantage of services including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon DynamoDB.

J. Walter Thompson (JWT) is a global marketing communications company with more than 200 offices in over 90 countries. Working with APN partner, CTERA Networks, the company migrated its on-premises tape backup solution to AWS. JWT's Africa-Middle East Region reports 63% in cost reduction on its backup solution running on AWS.

LafargeHolcim is the world leader in building materials that neeed high peformance for its active corporate website and 22 country websites. Using AWS gives LafargeHolcim the elasticity to instantaneously add or remove instances in order to manage website load during peak periods.

LIONSGATE maintains a library of 15,000 motion picture titles while continually releasing new movies and prime-time television programs for a global audience. Since 2010, the company’s diversified and geographically dispersed business units have collaborated using Microsoft SharePoint running in Amazon VPC.

When Mahindra Satyam needed a way to share and manage documents for one of its clients, a top three global pharmaceutical company, it turned to AWS for a solution. Using various AWS products and services, including Amazon EC2, Mahindra Satyam delivers a secure, reliable, and effective result.

MAPFRE is the largest insurance seller in Spain and Latin America. The company saved €1.3 million in infrastructure costs and reduced development time from weeks to days by switching to Amazon Web Services from an on-premises solution.

AWS Consulting Providers, Protera Technologies and Savantis Group, helped Merrifield Garden Center use SAP on the AWS Cloud to reduce costs, improve the stability and security of their applications and data, and eliminate the burden of managing IT infrastructure hardware so they can focus on new customer-facing initiatives to grow their business.

As its digital publishing business grew, MPS Technologies began to look for a secure and cost-effective way to grow its infrastructure. By using AWS, MPS is able to implement a high level of security, consistent with its on-premise environment, and the company projects a reduction of $450,000 in capital expenditures over a three-year period.

NASDAQ OMX is the largest exchange company in the world and currently owns and operates 24 markets, three clearing houses and five central securities spanning six continents. Their technology powers 70 exchanges in 50 countries. The company’s Global Data Products division uses Amazon S3 to store data used by its Market Replay and Data-On-Demand products, applications that allows customers to quickly access historical stock price information through a front end application and raw files.

NRE is a centralized online source of rail information in the UK, accessed by travelers all over the country. By using AWS, NRE reduced costs by 20% and eliminated unnecessary infrastructure while providing consistent service to users, even with loads up to 60% higher than normal.

Naughty Dog is the developer of the Uncharted game franchise, in addition to other notable titles for the Sony PlayStation family of consoles. The company hosts online game components, including multiplayer functionality, with Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, and Amazon CloudFront. This service stack offers a 90% savings over Naughty Dog’s on-premise option, in addition to greater flexibility and responsiveness.

News UK is one of Britain’s largest news organizations, publishing 2.4 million newspapers every day. The company migrated some of its enterprise applications including SAP Business Objects, SAP GRC, and Oracle Enterprise Manager from traditional data centers to AWS. By using AWS, the publisher has shortened its time to market for new development projects from 6 months to 1 day and reduced its data center footprint from six to two facilities.

Nisa Retail is a member-owned, supply-chain service for independent food retailers based in the UK. Wanting to provide members with a mobile app, Nisa worked with APN partner, Intechnica, to develop the app on the AWS Cloud, reducing time to market by nearly 4 months and connecting the app to mission-critical systems without disruption.

NTT DOCOMO, a leading mobile phone operator in Japan, experienced large traffic spikes in its mobile network service. Working with AWS Support, Enterprise-level, the mobile operator used the AWS Cloud to create a fast and agile development process and build a scalable voice recognition architecture able to serve over 60 million customers.

Based in Turkey, gaming company Peak Games has 30 million monthly active players across Turkey, Middle East, and North Africa. By using AWS, the company has lowered provisioning time from 4-6 hours to 10 minutes, and reduced operational costs.

Philips is a Dutch diversified technology company with sales and services available in more than 100 countries. The company’s U.S. healthcare division used Attunity CloudBeam, available on the AWS Marketplace, to upload 37 million records from an on-premises database to the AWS Cloud in just 90 minutes. By hosting its data on AWS, Philips can optimize any size data set within two hours, allowing its consultants and analysts to provide solutions quickly to its customers.

Pixels is a digital-advertising services company that delivers targeted ads to consumers on the web and mobile. The firm runs its ad server and analytics platforms in the AWS cloud. This has enabled Pixels to cut its time to market, excluding hardware procurement, from three months to one month.

Ramco Systems provides cloud-based enterprise solutions to more than 150,000 users in over 35 countries. By leveraging AWS, Ramco can improve server-provisioning time for customers by more than 80%, while reducing both its capital and operating expenditures by more than 40% compared to its on-premise data center.

Amazon Elastic MapReduce and Cascading lets Razorfish focus on application development without having to worry about time-consuming set-up, management, or tuning of Hadoop clusters or the compute capacity upon which they sit.

Start-up financial services company rplan provides its customers with tools to help achieve financial goals. Building its infrastructure based on AWS has enabled rplan to contain costs, maintain a high level of performance, and support a growing user base.

The S&P Capital IQ platform combines deep global company information and market research with powerful tools for fundamental analysis, idea generation, and workflow management. It provides easy access to both real-time and historical information on companies, markets, transactions, and people worldwide. The S&P data science team saves time and money by using the AWS Cloud to build intelligent analytics for the platform, taking advantage of AWS, including Amazon EMR and Amazon S3.

The Professional Services team at Sage Software in Germany often spent hours configuring local virtual machines before meeting with customers. Sage Software used AWS to develop a cloud infrastructure that saves the team an estimated 500 hours per year of server configuration time, resulting in faster access to their training and consulting systems.

SAP is a leading provider of enterprise software, handling 60% of the world’s GDP. Amazon Web Services customers can deploy the full range of SAP software in the AWS Cloud to solve business problems without worrying about infrastructure.

Seaco Global Ltd. is the world’s largest sea container leasing company, with more than $6 billion in assets. The company moved its daily business management software—including SAP Business Suite and SAP Solution Manager—from traditional data centers in the UK to AWS. As a result, the company cut its IT hosting and maintenance costs by 50 percent, dramatically improved performance of its SAP applications, and reduced the time it takes to complete its monthly billing process by 75 percent.

Singapore Post started as the traditional mail carrier for Singapore and diversified to become a large e-commerce solutions provider through its SP eCommerce division. The company turned to AWS to build its e-commerce platform and website to support its customers operating in Asia. Using AWS, it has grown quickly to support more than 1,000 consumer brands and can effectively manage fluctuating demands during major retail seasons.

SK Planet provides e-commerce, messaging, and location-based services to consumers. By using AWS, the company was able to expand globally with new data center operations that take just one or two days to establish—compared to as much as three months in the past—and has reduced related costs by up to 50 percent.

Suncorp Group, a leading Australian financial services organization, wanted to dream big and innovate without restriction to revitalize its complex and expensive IT environment. After a successful migration of mission-critical applications to AWS, the company plans to migrate 2,000 applications to the cloud.

TCL Communication wanted to introduce a new firmware update service, FOTA, to allow mobile phone users in more than 100 countries to upgrade their phones using the Internet. By using AWS, the China-based company is able to deliver FOTA to customers at near 100 percent availability, and at 10 times less the cost of a traditional data center.

Totaljobs Group is one of the largest and fastest-growing online job board providers in the United Kingdom. Totaljobs Group estimates that its recent move to AWS will reduce hosting costs by $500,000 per year.

Tradeworx, a financial technology company based in New Jersey, needed to help the SEC police market events such as the May 6, 2010 Flash Crash. By using AWS, Tradeworx was able to design an analytics platform that allows the SEC to reconstruct years of market data and analyze more than 3 billion data points in 2.8 seconds.

United Daily News Group (udn tv) decided to implement an online news video service to meet the changing needs of its audience. Using AWS, udn tv was able to deploy the service in two months and scale to support a 10x growth in viewer numbers.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) BioSense program tracks public health problems to better prepare for and coordinate responses to safeguard the wellbeing of the American people. The CDC recently re-launched BioSense 2.0 on the AWS Cloud in AWS GovCloud (US) and other Regions. With AWS, the CDC can better share important health information among public health professionals and with partners in state and local governments while avoiding costly investments in hardware.

Viskase, a worldwide supplier of casing solutions for the food industry, collaborated with Protera Technologies to implement an SAP disaster recovery (DR) solution. With a 24-hour, 7-day worldwide operation, Viskase needed a solution that would have limited downtime with reasonable costs. Viskase realized a 1-hour restore time and anticipates a 50% cost savings running the DR solution on AWS.

VSC Technologies is a subsidiary of the French National Railway Corporation (SNCF) under the SNCF online travel agency, Voyages-sncf.com, which handles long-distance and high-speed passenger services. Based near Paris and employing more than 170 people, VSC offers complete technology solutions and services for the railway distribution needs of its customers and hosts critical applications for railway reservations.

Willbros Group is a global contractor specializing in energy infrastructure and serving the oil, gas, and power industries. The company uses AWS to run its business applications, including Microsoft Office and Integra Link, a custom collaboration and analytics solution for managing pipeline integrity. Using AWS has enabled Willbros to bring projects to market 80 percent faster and scale compute resources on demand.

Digital ad technology company ZEDO offers products and services that help publishers sell and deliver Internet ads. By migrating to AWS, ZEDO has improved ad delivery times by almost 50% and reduced its operating costs by 40%.

By migrating SAP HANA workloads to the AWS Cloud, Ayala Land has seen an increase in performance by as much as 40 percent, and it projects a 24 percent cost savings over the next 5 years compared to running SAP HANA on premises. Ayala Land is a leading real-estate company with residential and commercial holdings throughout the Philippines. The enterprise uses Amazon EC2 to run its SAP HANA application and Amazon EBS as primary storage for all Amazon EC2 instances. Ayala Land facilitates automation and scripting with AWS Lambda and Amazon CloudWatch, and it strengthens system security using AWS Identity and Access Management.

Banyan Tree chose AWS to reduce latency and scalability of its websites, which receive two millions visitors annually, and reduced its time to market from one month to less than one week. Banyan Tree is a luxury hotel company that owns and manages luxury hotels around the globe. It uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Auto Scaling, and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC).

Bazaarvoice has the elastic architecture to spin up resources on demand and can easily support rapid data growth by using AWS. The company offers a technology platform and services that help customers collect and analyze consumer content, using that data to increase sales and improve their products and services. Bazaarvoice primarily hosts its service on AWS and supports critical databases using Amazon EBS.

Be Software cut costs 50 percent and more easily enters new geographic markets as a result of moving to AWS. Be Software provides simple, user-friendly SaaS applications for medical-case management and employment services. The company uses Amazon EC2 instances to host and run its customer-facing SaaS applications and takes advantage of Amazon EFS to optimize its processing and volume-storage needs.

Benchling reduces its CRISPR search times from 30 seconds to under 3 seconds, scales to support CRISPR workflows for more than a hundred organisms, and saves thousands of dollars monthly using AWS. The company provides a complete R&D platform used by thousands of life science researchers across the globe. Benchling runs its genome search platform on AWS, taking advantage of AWS Lambda serverless architecture.

By using AWS, Blesh reduces its latency by up to 90 percent, enabling its airline clients to send flight tracking information to passengers in real time. The Blesh beacon technology and analytics platform is the largest in Turkey, boasting more than 100,000 sensors that over 250 brands utilize to inform their customers of upcoming offers and information. The company has been able to sort and analyze ever-increasing amounts of sensor data by using AWS services such as Amazon Redshift.

Boingo Wireless uses AWS to run analytical queries in 25 seconds instead of 45 minutes, load one million data records in 20 seconds instead of two hours, and scale compute resources 20 times faster. Boingo Wireless provides mobile Internet access at more than one million Wi-Fi hotspots across the globe. The company runs its big-data warehouse and dev/test environments on AWS, and uses Amazon Redshift to ingest multiple terabytes of analytical data from different sources.

By using AWS to automate the process of identifying when individuals appear in video streams, C-SPAN estimates it will be able to index 100 percent of its first-run content each year, covering 7,500 hours of content compared to the previous 3,500 hours. C-SPAN is a public service created by the United States cable television industry to make government proceedings available for public viewing. The organization is using Amazon Rekognition—an image analysis service based on deep-learning technology—to detect faces in screenshots captured from eight available C-SPAN video feeds that run 24/7.

Cadreon processes big-data queries from thousands of sources in a few seconds and quickly scales to meet growing demand using AWS. The company provides programmatic advertising solutions to branding companies across the globe. Cadreon runs an audience-insights analytical platform on AWS.

Cambia Health Solutions uses AWS to enable startup healthcare companies to get to scale quickly while providing high levels of security for sensitive information and meeting compliance requirements. Cambia Health Solutions creates and invests in innovations designed to serve the changing needs of individuals and families, including a wide range of companies within its Direct Health Solutions Network. Within the portfolio of Direct Health Solutions companies, Wildflower uses AWS to deliver its pregnancy app to more than 50,000 women and HealthSparq delivers its healthcare price transparency app to more than 70 health plans covering 70 million members.

Cathay Pacific Airways, one of the world’s leading airlines, has improved software-development speeds by 67 percent using AWS. &nbsp;&nbsp;The airline flies to nearly 200 destinations in 49 countries and territories. Cathay Pacific Airways has boosted the performance of its business-critical website and enhanced development processes through web-application containerization on AWS. It uses Amazon EC2 instances to run its Red Hat OpenShift containerization platform, Amazon RDS for application and transactional data, and Amazon ElastiCache to enhance web-application speeds.

Celgene uses AWS to enable secure collaboration between internal and external researchers, allow individual scientists to launch hundreds of compute nodes, and reduce the time it takes to do computational jobs from weeks or months to less than a day. Celgene is a global biopharmaceutical company that creates drugs that fight cancer and other diseases and disorders. Celgene runs its high-performance-computing research clusters, as well as its research collaboration environment, on AWS.

Clever delivers educational software to 65,000 schools—almost half of all US public schools—meets comprehensive data-security requirements, and complies with data-protection regulations using AWS. The company provides software that schools use to keep educational applications rostered and updated. Clever runs its software on AWS and takes advantage of AWS services to meet the highest security and compliance requirements.

Comcast, the world's largest cable company and the leading U.S. provider of high-speed Internet and voice services, uses AWS in a hybrid environment to innovate and deploy features for its flagship video product, XFINITY X1, several times a week instead of once every 12-18 months under its old architecture.

By using AWS, Core Informatics quickly and securely deploys GxP-regulated applications, enabling life sciences customers to trace their products throughout the development cycle and save money. Core Informatics provides web-based laboratory management and informatics software to large life sciences and pharmaceutical companies, as well as midsize and startup organizations. The organization runs its lab informatics solutions—including Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)—on the AWS Cloud.

Creative Market moved mission-critical files onto the AWS Cloud, simplifying operations and maintenance and moving closer to its strategic goal of increasing file-size limits for user uploads. Creative Market is a platform on which independent creatives sell digital assets like graphics, templates, and fonts in their online shops. The company stores 1.3 TB of user-uploaded images on a solution that uses Amazon EFS and Amazon S3.

CSRA migrated more than 40 critical business applications to the cloud in just four months as a result of a spinoff and merger, met its customers’ data protection and regulatory compliance needs, and gained flexibility and agility by using AWS GovCloud (US). CSRA is one of the largest providers of next-generation IT services to US government agencies. The company was formed from the merger of the US Government Services business of CSC and SRA International in November 2015. It currently runs a growing number of customer-facing and internal applications on AWS GovCloud (US).

Custora reduced its operational burden, eliminated downtime, and increased the speed of onboarding new customers by shifting client data to Amazon EFS. Custora is an advanced customer-segmentation platform built for retail, enabling marketing and CRM teams to easily create targeted customer lists to improve ROI for email, display ads, Facebook, and direct-mail campaigns. Custora uses Amazon EC2 for ingestion and analysis of large data sets, and Amazon EFS storage for its data-ingestion and analytics pipelines.

DBS Bank is using AWS to transform its business, reach scale, and better serve its customers. DBS Bank is a multinational banking and financial-services corporation heaquarted in Marina Bay, Singapore. The company plans to move all of its public web assets—which support 50 percent of customer traffic and internet-banking workloads—to AWS in the coming years. The organization is also experimenting with AWS Lambda, machine learning, grid computing, and data-analytics workloads as part of its digitial-transformation journey.

Deltek saves a significant amount annually in licensing costs, scales quickly to support fast business growth, and stays compliant with regulatory requirements by using AWS. The company offers business software solutions to 22,000 project-based businesses worldwide. Deltek runs its customer-facing SaaS business on the AWS Cloud and takes advantage of Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances and Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts to reduce licensing costs and stay in license compliance with Microsoft.

DevFactory reduces operating costs by up to 65 percent, invests more into new business growth, and migrates customers up to 60 percent faster using AWS. The Dubai-based software and services provider acquires software companies and optimizes their businesses. DevFactory hosts customer business applications on AWS, speeds the migration of new customers using AWS Import/Export Snowball, and supports additional customer applications with Amazon RDS for Aurora.

Using AWS Snowmobile, DigitalGlobe is able to deliver petabytes of data in weeks instead of months while saving on costs, allowing the company to deliver data to its customers in the shortest possible amount of time. DigitalGlobe is one of the world’s leading providers of high-resolution Earth imagery, data and analysis. The company uses AWS Snowmobile to move up to 70 petabytes of archive data to the cloud, allowing it to move away from large file transfer protocols and delivery workflows.

DoHome operates as a retail and wholesale store, carrying a wide variety of construction materials, home improvements and home decorations products across Thailand. The company had first deployed their eCommerce system on AWS, enjoying a secured and scalable environment, and server runtime of 24/7 before deciding to move their SAP S/4 HANA system on AWS. Utilizing services such as Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon VPC and the best practices have helped reduce DoHome's go-to-market time and improved availability to better serve their customers.

Dr. Lal PathLabs eliminates downtime for applications to book medical tests and obtain test results online by migrating to AWS. Dr. Lal PathLabs is a leading diagnostic company offering healthcare-related diagnostic tests in India. The company uses Amazon EC2 instances for applications and databases that support test scheduling and results collection, as well as Amazon S3 to store all medical-test results.

By using AWS, Dynatrace created a “NoOps” IT architecture in 80 days, gaining the agility to launch its software as a service. The firm provides digital performance management solutions to medium and large businesses. It works across multiple AWS Regions to serve its global customer base, and uses services including Auto Scaling, Amazon EC2, and Amazon RDS to increase automation and minimize management.

Edmunds uses Amazon Macie to gain better visibility into data, and identify access violations more effectively. Edmunds is a leading network for car shopping and information, helping millions of shoppers every month find their perfect car. The company uses Amazon Macie to get visibility into data stored on Amazon S3 and to classify data usage.

Edmunds uses Amazon Macie to gain better visibility into data, and identify access violations more effectively. Edmunds is a leading network for car shopping and information, helping millions of shoppers every month find their perfect car. The company uses Amazon Macie to get visibility into data stored on Amazon S3 and to classify data usage.

By using AWS, Enel is saving 21 percent on compute costs and 60 percent on storage costs, has reduced provisioning time from four weeks to two days, and has transformed its business. Enel is an Italian multinational manufacturer and distributor of electricity and gas that serves 61 million customers. Enel uses AWS as its platform for IoT and energy management. Fabio Veronese, Head of Infrastructure and Technological Services, spoke onstage at re:Invent 2016.

Expedia takes advantage of the AWS global infrastructure to reduce network latency, improve time-to-market, and create a standardized platform that enables continuous innovation. Expedia is a leading online travel company for leisure and business travelers that maintains websites worldwide to offer localized content to customers.

FantasyDraft gains high availability and consistent performance for its website, increases its ability to scale to support traffic spikes and cut costs by 50 percent by using AWS. The company is a fantasy sports website that hosts daily contests for fans of all major sports. FantasyDraft supports its primary fantasy sports platform on AWS, hosts a dev and test environment on AWS, and uses a load-testing instance that can easily be spun up and down as needed.

Using AWS, FICO delivers high-volume analytics software and tools to enterprises around the globe, including 95 percent of the largest financial institutions in the US. FICO is a data analytics company best known for producing the most widely used consumer credit scores that financial insititutions use in deciding whether to lend money or issue credit. FICO has migrated several core applications, including myFICO.com and its flagship analytics platform, the Decision Management Suite (DMS), to AWS, and will migrate additional applications over the next three years.

FIGmd demonstrates compliance with healthcare industry regulations, gives healthcare organizations confidence their data is protected, and differentiates its business by using AWS and earning EHNAC cloud accreditation. The company offers clinical-data registries and other solutions to a range of healthcare organizations throughout the United States. FIGmd runs its clinical-data registries on the AWS Cloud.

Financial Engines is using AWS to reduce infrastructure costs by more than 90 percent and gain immense scalability. The largest independent investment advisor in the United States, Financial Engines offers technology-enabled portfolio-management services, financial planning, and investment guidance to more than nine million people nationwide. The firm runs its core computational engine on a serverless architecture using AWS Lambda.

Flatiron Health delivers software faster, organizes and improves the quality of oncology data, and ensures regulatory compliance by running its applications on AWS. The company provides software to clinicians to manage their practice, workflow, and patient health information. Flatiron runs its critical data-management and research applications on AWS.

In just two years, GE Appliances shifted to a DevOps approach, adopted a cloud-only policy, and achieved total visibility into its hybrid infrastructure by using AWS Management Tools and other AWS solutions. The company has been making appliances for more than 125 years. GE Appliances uses Amazon EC2 Systems Manager, AWS CloudTrail, and AWS Config to gain total, real-time visibility into its hybrid infrastructure, automate response scenarios, and eliminate manual security processes.

Geodata stores millions of aerial map images, lowers storage costs by more than 70 percent, and scales to support future website growth using the AWS Cloud. The company provides mapping software and services to customers throughout Norway. Geodata runs the official Norwegian aerial image archive and distribution solution on AWS.

Gett scales to keep up with 300 percent annual growth, saves $800,000 yearly, and gains new business insights using AWS. The company provides an online taxi reservation service used by millions of people in Europe, Israel, and the US. Gett runs its website and mobile web application on AWS, relying on Amazon EC2 Spot Instances to optimize costs.

Globe Telecom is a major provider of telecommunications services in the Philippines, operating one of the largest mobile, fixed line and broadband networks in the country with close to 60 million customers. Globe aims to provide superior customer experience in using AWS for its web portal, content registration platforms, online store and self-service apps, which have seen huge uptake in application performance. Globe uses services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS and AWS Lambda for its daily business workloads and processes, and have enjoyed tremendous savings of close to USD 2 million since.

By using AWS, GoPro quickly built and launched its GoPro Plus service to enable its customers to upload content directly to the cloud. GoPro is an action-camera manufacturer that allows customers to share experiences with others using its products, mobile apps and software. The company relies on the AWS Support team for quick assistance with its upcoming product launches.

Guardian News and Media, publisher of The Guardian, increased the velocity of releases for its digital properties from 25 in 2012 to 40,000 in 2015 by using AWS. The London-based company is a global media organization that published its first newspaper in the UK more than 200 years ago. It uses a wide range of AWS services, including Amazon Kinesis and Amazon Redshift that power an analytics dashboard, which editors use to see how stories are trending in real time.

GulfMark Offshore uses AWS to save $25,000 a month in operating costs, scale business applications up or down on demand, and ensure reliability and high availability for its critical SAP environment. The global energy services company operates and manages more than 70 oil and gas industry support vessels. GulfMark runs dozens of SAP applications on AWS and is in the process of migrating additional applications to the AWS cloud.

Hightail moved multiple petabytes of customer data to AWS, enabling the company to improve performance by up to 17 times and cut the time to deploy to new regions from 24 weeks to 2 weeks. Hightail enables teams of marketers, creatives, external agencies, and freelancers to collaborate on visual content, accelerating creative review and approval cycles with intuitive and accessible tools. The company uses Amazon S3 as its storage solution, removing the need to manage infrastructure and allowing it to focus on developing innovative customer experiences.

IAC Publishing competes more effectively, deploys code four to six times per day instead of every four to six weeks, and saves $15 million annually by moving more than 50 websites to AWS. The company manages and maintains popular websites such as The Daily Beast, Dotdash, and Dictionary.com. IAC Publishing moved more than 50 popular web properties —including five of the top 400 web properties on the Internet—as well as its entire software-development pipeline to AWS.

Illumina uses AWS to globally scale its DNA sequencing technologies while driving down costs by 100X and meeting the security requirements of different countries and customers. The company is a leader in providing DNA sequencing and array-based technologies for customers in the research, clinical, and applied markets, with 90 percent of all DNA sequencing worldwide being performed on Illumina machines. Illumina uses products like Amazon Redshift to support its BaseSpace Sequence Hub that currently stores 10 petabytes of genomics data.

Using AWS, InCred can securely store vast amounts of financial data and rapidly introduce new lending products to an expanding customer base with development times as short as two weeks. InCred is a diversified financial services group that provides secured and unsecured loans to individuals and small businesses in India. The company uses Amazon EC2 for core computing, Amazon DynamoDB to capture unstructured loan data, and AWS Lambda as a streaming engine on Amazon DynamoDB. It also uses Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront to deploy the front end of its system for customer access.

Infor saves 75 percent on monthly database-backup costs, completes application backups 30 percent faster, and keeps pace with global business growth by going all in on AWS. The organization provides enterprise resource planning and other software solutions to a range of enterprises worldwide. Infor runs more than 30 customer-facing applications on the AWS Cloud.

Using AWS, Instapage increased customer in-app activity by 10 percent, enabled marketing and customer success with powerful on-demand reporting, and identified a billing error that will save the company tens of thousands of dollars. The company offers a software-as-a-service solution to build and optimize landing pages for advertising campaigns. Instapage’s data team implemented Amazon Redshift—alongside various analytics tools—to aggregate, warehouse, and synthesize data on a 2 TB cluster.

Intuit Mint uses AWS to automatically scale to support a 200 percent increase in website traffic, reduce operating costs by 25 percent, and boost website availability and developers’ speed and efficiency. Mint is a free online service that consumers can use to manage personal finances and track and pay bills in a single location. The company runs its Mint.com website on the AWS Cloud.

KENT has cut the IT spend on its IT Infrastructure and cloud services by 10 percent by migrating to AWS. The company provides technologically advanced healthcare products ranging from purifiers to water softeners in India. Today, KENT runs its CRM and other business critical applications on Amazon EC2 instances. The company is also using Amazon Device Farm to drive the development of multiple customer-facing apps.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional supports more than 2 billion searchable documents, including legal information and news content, cuts server deployment time from several weeks to hours and gains stronger database performance by using AWS. The organization provides legal research and other services to a worldwide subscriber base. LexisNexis runs its News Archive search service in the AWS cloud.

Using AWS, Librato reduced database latencies by up to 500 milliseconds, cut operational costs by 35 percent, and lowered database recovery times to minutes instead of hours. The company offers a cloud-based monitoring platform its customers use to collect, visualize, and store streaming application data. Librato runs its cloud-monitoring platform on AWS, supporting hundreds of Cassandra database instances on Amazon EBS volumes.

Lockheed Martin quickly migrated its SAP Suite on HANA to the AWS Cloud, gaining business agility and cost savings and ensuring compliance with key industry data protection regulations. The organization is a developer of aerospace and defense systems for the U.S. military and global U.S. allies. Lockheed Martin is running its SAP Suite on HANA on AWS for test and development workloads, utilizing Amazon EC2 X1 instance types for strong system performance.

The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections enables lab-based educational and vocational training using the ATLO Software system for thousands of inmates at four correctional facilities using AWS. The department manages nine correctional facilities across the state. It uses Amazon WorkSpaces within an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud environment to provide a secured learning environment for inmates.

lululemon athletica can stand up development environments in minutes instead of days, automate its environment, and enable continuous integration and deployment using AWS. The Canadian company sells yoga-inspired apparel and other clothing at more than 350 locations throughout the world. The company runs its dev and test environments—as well as an upcoming mobile app—on the AWS Cloud.

Macmillan Learning can scale its Launchpad digital-learning application to support three times the number of users, scale up or down as needed, and release new application features faster by going all in on AWS. The organization provides print and digital educational tools for teachers and learners globally. Macmillan Learning worked with AWS Partner Relus to migrate Launchpad to the AWS Cloud.

With more than 75 years of experience in the area of filtration, MANN+HUMMEL is a leading global filtration specialist providing air filtration solutions with high technical quality, innovative design and strong performance. The company covers a range of sectors from indoor air solutions to automotive industry, mechanical engineering and water filtration. MANN+HUMMEL deployed its IoT solutions on AWS in Singapore and utilizes services such as AWS Lambda and AWS IoT Platform. Since using AWS, MANN+HUMMEL enjoys rapid go-to-market and effortless scalability for its smart IoT filter solutions despite its global market base.

Matillion is able to process data up to 100X faster than traditional ETL/ELT tools by using Amazon Redshift. Matillion is a cloud analytics software vendor based in London, UK. Matillion ETL is a modern ETL/ELT tool built specifically for Amazon Redshift and is delivered as an Amazon Machine Image on the AWS Marketplace.

Using AWS, McDonald’s Corporation transformed into a digital technology company, beat performance targets by up to 66 percent, and completes 8,600 transactions per second via its point-of-sale (POS) system. McDonald’s Corporation is an American hamburger and fast food restaurant chain that serves 69 million customers each day. McDonald’s uses a number of AWS services including Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon EBS, and Amazon ElastiCache to support its global POS system, including 200,000 registers and 300,000 POS devices. Tom Gergets, CTO of McDonald’s Corporation, spoke onstage at re:Invent 2016.

By running its geospatial data platform on AWS, Monsanto quickly scales to meet growth, provisions compute and storage in seconds, and sets up development and test environments in minutes instead of months. Monsanto provides agricultural products that support farmers and other customers throughout the world. The company uses Amazon Elastic File System to support its geospatial data and analytics solution.

Using AWS, Morningstar quickly deployed an application to help customers choose investment products that comply with the new Department of Labor fiduciary rule. Morningstar is a global provider of independent investment research, products, and services. It uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk to host .NET APIs and relies on Amazon VPC for secure connectivity to company databases while retaining the agility to innovate.

Using AWS, MYOB scales its infrastructure to support demand for new services and saves up to 30 percent by shutting down unused capacity and using Reserved Amazon EC2 Instances. MYOB provides business management software to about 1.2 million organizations in Australia and New Zealand. MYOB uses a wide range of AWS services, including Amazon Machine Learning, to build smart applications incorporating predictive analytics and AWS CloudFormation scripts to create new AWS environments in the event of a disaster.

National Bank of Canada’s Global Equity Derivatives Group (GED) uses AWS to process and analyze hundreds of terabytes of financial data, conduct data manipulations in one minute instead of days, and scale and optimize its operations. GED provides stock-trading solutions and services to a range of organizations throughout the world. The organization runs its data analysis using the TickVault platform on the AWS Cloud.

Netflix uses AWS to analyze billions of messages across more than 100,000 application instances daily in real time, enabling it to optimize user experience, reduce costs, and improve application resilience. Netflix is the world’s leading internet television network, with more than 100 million members. Using Amazon Kinesis Streams, Netflix processes network flow logs rapidly and enriches them with application metadata in a highly dynamic, large-scale networking environment.

New York Public Library (NYPL) revamped its fractured IT environment—which had older technology and legacy computing—to a modernized platform on AWS. The New York Public Library is a provider of free books, information, ideas, and education for more than 17 million patrons a year. Using Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon RDS and Auto Scaling, NYPL is able to build scalable, repeatable systems quickly at a fraction of the cost.

AWS enables Newforma to scale its project information management (PIM) solution to meet global growth, deploy software updates in weeks instead of months, and ensure strong security and high availability. The company offers PIM solutions to architecture, engineering, and construction customers throughout the world. Newforma runs its cloud-hosted products and features on the AWS Cloud.

Olympusat uses AWS to support its microservices architecture, saving $25,000 a month by eliminating the use of similar, more expensive services. Olympusat is a large independent media company specializing in Spanish-language movie, music, and entertainment television channels. Olympusat supports its architecture using services such as AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon Simple Notification Service, Amazon Simple Queue Service, and Amazon DynamoDB to deliver its over-the-top platform.

Pacific Inter-Link, one of the leading MME (Manufacturer – Marketer – Exporter) organisations in Malaysia, has a global workforce of nearly 7,000 and is primarily focused on the export of commodities, consumer goods and services from Malaysia and the Far East to Global Markets. Using AWS for its deployment of SAP workloads, Pacific Inter-Link has enjoyed a significant reduction in infrastructure spend together with quicker deployments and automation improvements for their daily workloads. In addition, using AWS services such as AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Lambda have resulted in excellent utilization of AWS infrastructure and substantial savings which is expected to accrue over the next 3 years.

ProtectWise uses AWS as the basis for an innovative security-analytics solution, enabling customers to store petabytes of networking data and analyze it in seconds. ProtectWise delivers automated threat detection, pervasive visibility, and unlimited forensic exploration, all from the cloud and on demand. The company uses Amazon EBS to buffer incoming data before storing it in Amazon S3, and uses Amazon EC2 to power data processing and analytics.

Rabbi Interactive scales to support a live-broadcast, second-screen app and voting system for hundreds of thousands of users, gives home television viewers real-time interactive capabilities, and reduces monthly operating costs by 60 percent by using AWS. Based in Israel, the company provides digital experiences such as second-screen apps used to interact with popular television shows such as “Rising Star” and “Big Brother.” Rabbi Interactive worked with AWS partner CloudZone to develop an interactive second-screen platform.

By using AWS, Razorpay completes data migration with less than four minutes’ downtime and minimizes disruption to merchants using its online-payment gateway. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Bangalore, India, Razorpay’s payment-gateway services are used by more than 30,000 merchants. The business is using a range of AWS services, including Auto Scaling to automate the process of scaling and Amazon EC2 instances to support peaks and troughs in demand.

Realtor.com uses AWS to support 50 million monthly website visitors, process tens of millions of ad impressions per day, and enable a DevOps development model. The organization runs a popular online real estate listing website that provides millions of for-sale listings and other information for buyers, sellers, and renters. Realtor.com runs its ad impression platform, website, and other solutions on AWS.

Reckon achieves 99.999 percent availability and scales to support traffic surge now that its online and hosted accounting solution is running on AWS. Reckon provides accounting software for small to midsize businesses, and practice-management software for larger accounting practices in Australia and New Zealand. To meet customers’ expectations, the business uses AWS services such as Auto Scaling to support spikes in traffic, and AWS Elastic Beanstalk to manage tasks such as capacity provisioning and load balancing.

Rent-A-Center (RAC) uses AWS to manage its new e-commerce website, scale to support a 1,000 percent spike in site traffic, and enable a DevOps approach. RAC is a leading renter of furniture, appliances, and electronics to customers in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and Mexico. The company runs its e-commerce website on the AWS Cloud.

Relying on AWS as its infrastructure provider of choice for its Splunk Enterprise cybersecurity solution, Royal Dutch Shell matured a large data lake for historical analysis. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Royal Dutch Shell is a British-Dutch multinational oil and gas company with operations in more than 70 countries and an interest in 22 refineries around the globe. The company uses Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS for its Splunk environment on AWS, which helps it find more than twice as many events that could have resulted in security incidents and breaches.

San Francisco State University, in collaboration with the Stanford Helix Group, needed to accelerate computations for their research project, FEATURE. Using machine learning techniques and Amazon EC2, the teams were able to complete research that previously would have taken them weeks in just hours while reducing computing costs.

Lifting and shifting its website from dedicated hosting to AWS helped Seeking Alpha beat a six-month deadline, move from a maintenance to a DevOps mindset, and eliminate most production issues. Seeking Alpha provides a platform on which more than 15,000 investment analysts earn money by publishing their own independent investment news and analysis for an audience of millions. The Seeking Alpha solution includes on-demand Amazon EC2 instances to absorb traffic spikes and Amazon S3 for storing content and backups.

Migrating its POS and CRM systems to the AWS Cloud has enabled Senao International to automate 63 percent of systems maintenance, better manage security protocols, and eliminate downtime. Senao International is the leading provider of wireless phones, accessories, and mobile calling plans in Taiwan. The company uses Amazon EC2 to power its new e-commerce site and CRM platform, Amazon RDS to manage databases, and AWS Lambda to automate control of its AWS WAF firewall.

By migrating to AWS, SGN has become more secure and agile while reducing costs. SGN is a United Kingdom gas-distribution company that manages the distribution network for natural and green gas to almost six million homes and businesses across Scotland and the south of England. The company runs multiple workloads on AWS, including key analytics platforms and mobile applications.

Shaadi.com migrated from a private hosted cloud to AWS so it could focus on its core business, reduce costs, and gain the agility to develop better user experiences faster. Shaadi.com is one of the world’s largest online matchmaking services, helping people around the world meet their life partners through a curated database of verified profiles.The company uses Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 as a foundation for its services, relies on Amazon ElastiCache for in-memory storage, and adopted Amazon Rekognition for automated profile-picture management.

With AWS, five students were able to set up a simulation business—called SimScale—that has attracted 100,000 users in just four years. SimScale makes computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, and thermal simulation available to anyone via a web browser, so companies can make better-informed design decisions. SimScale runs its application using AWS services including Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3.

Software AG, an AWS Partner Network Technology Partner, has increased its operational efficiency and has been able to pursue a number of joint go-to-market opportunities by deciding to go all-in on AWS. Software AG offers the first end-to-end digital business platform—based on open standards, with integration, process management, adaptive application development, real-time analytics and enterprise architecture management as core building blocks—to help customers build digital futures today. Software AG also participates in the AWS SaaS Partner Program.

Sony DADC New Media Solutions has been able to elastically scale its infrastructure and automate workflows, making linear broadcast content available as a video-on-demand (VoD) streaming content. Under its Ven.ue brand, Sony DaDC New Media Solutions (NMS) provides digital supply-chain solutions targeting major film studios, broadcasters, music labels, game companies, and other content providers. NMS started its move to AWS by migrating its Ven.ue distribution workflows, running on hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances, and is using Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier to move its 20-petabyte video archive and Amazon CloudFront as its global content delivery network service to accelerate content delivery to customers.

Sparta Systems uses the AWS Cloud to host quality-management systems for the life sciences industry that maintain data integrity, foster collaboration across a company’s quality ecosystem, and enable customers to deliver safer products to consumers. Sparta Systems hosts a solution on which pharmaceutical and medical-device companies can operate validated workloads that can be secured, analyzed, and verified by regulatory agencies. Using a variety of AWS services, it helps these customers minimize the costs and work interruptions that come with regulatory investigations and manage quality for processes across their entire production life cycle.

By using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) to aggregate billions of records, Spokeo is able to render its web pages faster to rank higher on Google search. Spokeo, headquartered in Pasadena, California, is a website that enables users to search for people by first or last name, address, phone number, or social handles—or any combination of these identifiers. The company uses Amazon EFS along with Amazon EC2 and Amazon DynamoDB to aggregate and store 12 billion records, delivering web pages more quickly to users and web crawlers.

Superior Group uses AWS to make SAP processes three times faster, scale its SAP environment to keep pace with new growth, and perform database failovers in minutes instead of days. The company provides a range of staffing and consulting services to organizations throughout the world. Superior Group runs its SAP ERP, PI, NetWeaver Gateway, and BusinessObjects systems in production on AWS.

Tavisca Solutions has reduced the time required to bring new travel agencies onboard its hosted services—to three weeks from six months—using AWS. The company provides software platforms and solutions to the travel industry, enabling travel agencies to operate online. It uses Amazon ECS to provide containerized environments for individual agencies.

Using AWS, TechnologyOne simplified its business model and is now able to move faster with more focus on the customer. TechnologyOne is an enterprise software company based in Australia. The company moved its IT environment from physical data centers and into the AWS cloud, eliminating the need to manage infrastructure.

Thomson Reuters uses AWS as the platform for its Product Insight analytics solution, which can process more than 4,000 events per second and scales automatically to accommodate increases in traffic during breaking news. Thomson Reuters provides professionals with the intelligence, technology, and human expertise they need to find trusted answers. Product Insight captures and processes data using Amazon Kinesis and AWS Lambda, stores it using Amazon S3, and secures it using AWS Key Management Service.

Trainline maintained high-speed growth during a year-long migration to AWS, while improving agility, security, and availability. By transitioning to a microservices model, the development team at Trainline has been able to switch to continuous delivery, and do so four months ahead of target. It has gone from a six-week development cycle to pushing out more than 70 updates in one week.

Using AWS, Travis Perkins plc is creating a continuous-development and -deployment cycle, supporting its businesses by increasing automation and boosting performance of mission-critical systems. The group, which operates 21 brands including home-improvement site Wickes, has supplied materials to the United Kingdom’s building and construction markets for more than 200 years. The firm uses AWS technologies including Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS to run SAP Hybris environments for the group’s digital store fronts.

Under Armour can scale its Connected Fitness apps to meet the demands of more than 180 million global users, innovate and deliver new products and features more quickly, and expand internationally by taking advantage of the reliability and high availability of AWS. The company is a global leader in performance footwear, apparel, and equipment. Under Armour runs its growing Connected Fitness app platform on the AWS Cloud.

Upserve quickly develops and trains more than 100 learning models, streams restaurant sales and menu item data in real time, and gives restaurateurs the ability to predict their nightly business using Amazon Machine Learning. The company provides online payment and analytical software to thousands of restaurant owners throughout the U.S. Upserve uses Amazon Machine Learning to provide predictive analysis through its Shift Prep application.

Vancouver International Airport’s (YVR) Innovative Travel Solutions team uses AWS to provide high availability and security for its BORDERXPRESS Automated Passport Control solution and to easily scale the solution to accommodate expansion to new airports. YVR, one of the world’s busiest airports, is served by 55 airlines. The organization runs the solution on AWS, using multiple AWS Availability Zones for redundancy and taking advantage of AWS CloudFormation templates to refresh virtual servers and test images before sending them to production.

Viasat built a business-critical data-ingestion platform using AWS, adopting Amazon EBS st1 volumes for optimal I/O performance and simplified storage management. Viasat is a satellite-communications provider that connects residential customers, flight passengers and crews, and military operations across the globe to the internet through trusted communications ground services, infrastructure, and personnel. The company runs Apache Kafka on Amazon EC2 using Amazon EBS storage.

Visy has increased the performance of its business-critical SAP environment by moving to AWS—increasing database and application performance by 28 percent and 46 percent, respectively. Visy is a global leader in packaging and recycling solutions. The organization runs its SAP infrastructure on Amazon EC2 X1 instances with Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS for data storage, and Amazon Redshift supporting real-time business reporting.

Vocus Communications developed a data-analytics platform 75 percent faster by using AWS and engaging APN Partner Bryte Systems. Vocus is a telecommunications company in Australia delivering a range of services, including broadband internet. The company has built an analytics platform that features Amazon S3, Amazon EMR, and Amazon Redshift to deliver real-time business insights—designed to improve customer experience, reduce churn, and leverage new business opportunities.

By running the DreamLab application on AWS, Vodafone Australia has been able to support almost 60,000 downloads of the app and expects the number to increase to more than 100,000 without impacting performance. DreamLab is an initiative by Vodafone Foundation Australia, which seeks ways for mobile technology to improve the health of Australians. The DreamLab application, built by b2cloud, aims to expedite cancer research at Garvan Institute of Medical Research.

Waters is bringing its regulated laboratory customers to the AWS Cloud for increased global agility and simplified relationships with outsourcing partners, helping its customers drive their businesses forward. The company is a leading worldwide provider of specialty measurement technologies, delivering benefits through innovations and people that enable customer success in materials, food, and life sciences. Waters uses AWS CloudFormation templates to provision the AWS infrastructure—including Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, and Amazon S3—that its Empower Cloud runs on.

WeatherRisk in Taiwan reduces the cost of developing high-precision weather forecasts by 50 percent using AWS. The company provides government agencies and enterprises with weather forecasts and risk mitigation reports. By using AWS, the company can deliver its services, and develop new services to meet clients’ specific requirements, significantly faster. As a result of the added compute performance from Amazon EC2 and AWS Lambda, weather data is downloaded in seconds instead of minutes from satellite sources, and meteorological data can be stored cost-efficiently in Amazon Glacier.

By using AWS, Wipro enhances employee productivity by improving the response time of the company’s ticketing system by 50 percent while reducing operational overheads by 20 percent. Wipro is an information technology, consulting, and business process services company. Wipro migrated its on-premises ticketing system to AWS, and uses Amazon EC2 for powering the system’s software, and Elastic Load Balancing and Auto Scaling services to maximize performance during peak periods.

Xilinx uses AWS to improve software-test turnaround time, help developers be more productive, and scale to meet compute demands. Xilinx is a provider of All Programmable FPGAs, SoCs, MPSoCs, and 3D ICs and software solutions to customers across the globe. The company runs its software-testing platform on an AWS high-performance computing cluster.

Using AWS, Yellow New Zealand drives development while scaling its products to support millions of searches without the expense of an on-premises IT infrastructure. Yellow New Zealand connects businesses with consumers across multiple platforms, including mobile. The company uses AWS CloudFormation to develop its product code and Amazon ECS to automate the release of new product features. Amazon Elasticsearch Service enables customers to quickly access details for business services, with Amazon ElastiCache helping frequently searched data appear more quickly.

Zendesk develops and trains deep-learning applications on AWS to deliver new capabilities to customer-service organizations and scale to support for current and future application demand. The company provides an online customer support platform used by more than 114,000 companies across the globe. Zendesk relies on AWS GPU instances and the TensorFlow deep-learning framework to create new applications for customers.

Zillow Group increases machine-learning calculation performance and scalability and delivers near-real-time home-valuation data to customers using AWS. The company houses a portfolio of the largest online real-estate and home-related brands. Zillow Group runs the Zestimate, its machine learning–based home-valuation tool, on Amazon Kinesis and Apache Spark on Amazon EMR.

Ávoris reduced the time to generate SAP reports by 50 percent when it migrated its mission-critical SAP environment to AWS with the support of Linke Information Technology, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Premier Consulting Partner. Ávoris, formerly Barceló Viajes, is a leading provider of tourism services in Spain. Ávoris uses Amazon EC2 instances for its SAP database and applications, and it relies on Amazon S3 for backups, which gives the business the scalability to grow.